• Paper

    Masahiro Sugiyama, Associate Professor

Commentary published at Communications Earth & Environment

The article compared the two global crise (COVID-19 and climate change), and drew five lessons for climate change, particularly the controversial climate option called climate engineering (geoengineering and stratospheric aerosol injection). One lesson is the danger of working with a single metric (effective reproduction number and global temperature increase). The article also notes the need to conduct transdisciplinary research involving stakeholders in advance of the crisis, among other policy implications.

Research title:


Pandemic politics – lessons for solar geoengineering

Joint Researchers:


Holly Buck, Oliver Geden, Masahiro Sugiyama, and Olaf Corry

Journal:


Communications Earth & Environment
Article number: 16 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00018-1

Contact:


Masahiro Sugiyama
Associate Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives
https://ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/people/sugiyama-masahiro/